Robin Jensen

Robin Jensen is currently the Instructor of Collaborative Piano/Vocal Arts and the Music Director for the opera workshop program at the University of Central Florida. She is Co-Director of the UCF/FOT Summer Opera Institute and is collaborative pianist for all of the University of Central Florida Choirs.

She has been a vocal coach, chorus master and children’s chorus master for many Orlando Philharmonic Orchestras' musical and opera productions and has worked with such companies as Minnesota Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera and Opera IOWA where she developed the educational opera company and created their first outreach opera workshops. During her tenure with the Orlando Opera, Robin served as a conductor, assistant conductor and stage director for many opera productions and held the title of Director of Music Administration and Education. She was also instrumental in the development of the Resident Artist and founded their Youth Programs.

Robin was a vocal coach with the University of Vermont, Ithaca College, Cornell University and Rollins College. She has presented Singing/Acting master classes for colleges and universities across the country, as well as performed as a collaborative pianist for recitals and other performances. She has been a Music Director for many theatres including MadCow Theatre here in Orlando.

Since 1999, Robin has been Artistic Director for “Camp Madhatter” a summer intensive music drama camp in Minnesota. Each year the Camp focuses on a different theatrical theme from which a two week curriculum is created. Robin is founding director of The Florida Opera Theatre Youth Programs. During her four year tenure, the Youth choruses have performed with the Orlando Philharmonic’s productions of “Home For The Holidays”, “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Barber of Seville”,“Mahler Symphony #3” and “Tosca”. For the Florida Opera Theatre, Robin has developed an intensive singing/acting program for young singers ages 7 to 18. She is currently Artistic Director for a new program for Middle School students “Build An Opera” where the singers are involved with writing and creating their own “opera” work.

Robin holds a BM and a MM in Piano Performance from Drake University with additional collaborative piano studies from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received the prestigious Martha Ellen Tye scholarship for collaborative piano study at the American Institute of Music in Graz, Austria where she studied piano with Jan Meyorowitz and French diction with Margarite Meyerowitz. Other primary teachers include Susan Webb, Wesley Balk, Guy Wuellner and Nathan Schwartz.

Education

M.M. in Additional Collaborative Piano Studies from San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Open to any UCF student (not restricted to music majors), the course does require an audition for first-timers... Auditions for Spring 2017 will be held on Tuesday, January 10 - see http://music.cah.ucf.edu/ensembleauditions.php#operatab for more information...

The fundamental purpose of Opera Workshop is the study and performance of opera. This semester's major project will be two performances of the second act of DIE FLEDERMAUS on March 4 and 5.

Interested students are encouraged to contact Professor Potter (emailing him through opera@ucf.edu) to set up a meeting to discuss participation in the class.

Open to any UCF student (not restricted to music majors), the course does require an audition for first-timers... Auditions for Fall 2016 will be held on Tuesday, August 23 - see http://music.cah.ucf.edu/ensembleauditions.php#operatab for more information...

The fundamental purpose of Opera Workshop is the study and performance of opera. This semester's major project will be an opera scenes program - performed on Friday evening, November 11 and Sunday afternoon, November 13. We will likely also start preparation of music for our Spring opera offerings, which is yet to be announced (waiting on some logistical details to be worked out).

Interested students are encouraged to contact Professor Potter (emailing him through opera@ucf.edu) to set up a meeting to discuss participation in the class.

Open to any UCF student (not restricted to music majors), the course does require an audition for first-timers... Auditions for Fall 2016 will be held on Tuesday, August 23 - see http://music.cah.ucf.edu/ensembleauditions.php#operatab for more information...

The fundamental purpose of Opera Workshop is the study and performance of opera. This semester's major project will be an opera scenes program - performed on Friday evening, November 11 and Sunday afternoon, November 13. We will likely also start preparation of music for our Spring opera offerings, which is yet to be announced (waiting on some logistical details to be worked out).

Interested students are encouraged to contact Professor Potter (emailing him through opera@ucf.edu) to set up a meeting to discuss participation in the class.